Wow, the list of topics is even longer than the list of authors this time!
Every author was selected to be a master in the field, and the combination is a great book which could probably not have been this good if it was written by only one author (one expert in all fields) instead of many.
This book is a good follow-up for the Beginning Linux Programming, also by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones, published in September 1999 by WROX, which is one of my personal favorite Linux Programming books.